Sebastiaan wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Chris Metzler wrote: > > For something to be removed, you have to answer "y" to the question > > of whether you want them to be. Presumably, you did. > > > true, and I was intending to reinstall it after the upgrade was complete. > > Problem is: apt doesn't allow you to choose which packages are not to > removed: it's either all or nothing. Choosing "n" will cause apt to abort > the upgrade, so that wasn't really an option.
When I see something like that I break out of apt and then will do something like "hold" the package. But truly if it was a conflict then that won't work. echo xv hold | dpkg --set-selections If you really need xv specifically then you can always get the latest rpm of it from the xv site and alien translate it and install it. I think I needed the alien from sid to do a good job with this translation but recent alien versions worked well. > > > Now I can't find this package in the Debian tree anymore, neither did Without trying to start a debate I suggest that instead of xv you might try these image viewers. They are free software and avoid the entanglements of xv's copyright. xview -- in the xloadimage package feh -- what can I say but that I like it If you are using xv to grab images then: import -- in the imagemagick package And searching with apt will of course turn up more. apt-cache search image viewer Bob
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